https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3085463/china-voices-concern-over-israels-west-bank-annexation-plan

Chinese ambassador to the UN says two-state solution the only way forward

The Palestinians can count on Beijing’s continued support to build independent state, envoy says

China has said it is “deeply concerned” about Israel’s plan to annex the West Bank, joining opposition to a move that could inflame the region.

“The two-state solution is the only viable way forward to solve the Palestinian question. We urge the relevant party to stop any unilateral action and refrain from escalating conflicts and tension,” Zhang Jun, China’s ambassador to the United Nations, said at a meeting at the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

“It’s also our firm opposition that no country should back such unilateral actions. China shares the view that the Security Council should discharge its mandate and do its part to prevent such a dangerous unilateral action.”

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/usa-southchinasea-reaction-07142020184512.html

The Philippines on Tuesday backed Washington’s tougher stance on the South China Sea while Indonesia described it as “normal,” a day after America’s top diplomat declared that the world would not allow Beijing to treat the contested waterway as “its maritime empire.”

In Manila, the Philippine defense chief welcomed the statement from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who vowed that America stood with its Southeast Asian allies “in protecting their sovereign rights to offshore resources.” But government officials in neighboring Malaysia, another of the claimants to the South China Sea, declined to comment on what Pompeo said.

The Philippines was urging Beijing to heed the international community’s call, which was in the “best interest of regional stability,” said Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, who had expressed concern lately about Chinese naval maneuvers in the sea region.

“We strongly agree with the position of the international community that there should be a rules-based order in the South China Sea,” Lorenzana said in a statement.

He also reiterated Manila’s call for Beijing to comply with a landmark July 2016 ruling by an international arbitration court in The Hague that went in favor of the Philippines and struck down the legal basis of Beijing’s vast claims to the sea.

https://elfeis.occrp.org/

Welcome to El Feis, a social network of jet-setting Venezuelans bound together by a web of corruption that fueled their rise to the upper echelons of wealth and privilege, even as their country spiraled into crippling poverty.

The people on El Feis are real. The platform and profiles were built by OCCRP journalists, and the news organization Efecto Cocuyo.

Journalists combed through the social media accounts of each profiled individual. They also dug up information from sources including the U.S. Treasury Department and other governments that have slapped sanctions on these elites, as well as property and business registries, court documents, and bank records.

The result is a repository of information on government and military officials, and well-connected businesspeople. El Feis offers a window into this hidden world, and highlights the staggering level of corruption in Venezuela.

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could be good resource for venezuela

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8531765/amp/Matt-Hancock-launches-urgent-review-way-PHE-counts-coronavirus-deaths.html

Matt Hancock launches urgent review into fiasco at Public Health England as it's revealed anyone who has ever died after testing positive for Covid-19 has been recorded as a 'coronavirus death' - even if they were hit by a bus

People are never truly recovered from the disease, according to the way PHE collects data, and any deaths are blamed on the coronavirus regardless of their real cause.

Dr Yoon Loke, a pharmacologist at the University of East Anglia, told MailOnline his 'best guess' was that more than 1,000 people have had their deaths wrongly recorded as caused by Covid-19.

He warned that it is 'not a good way of collecting data', has had a significant impact in the past two months and is happening because PHE 'chose a quick and easy technique'.

The statistical flaw is likely why the daily death tolls hardly seem to be going down in England, he added in a blog post with Oxford University's Professor Carl Heneghan.

And they may not hit zero 'for months to come' because of a long tail of elderly people who beat Covid-19 but will die of other causes, Dr Loke added.

Researchers have raised concerns regularly about the way the Government is counting Covid-19 victims and say the figures 'vary substantially from day to day'.

The way PHE counts victims on a daily basis works by it combing through records of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in the past to see if they have died.

>>9986041

>hat's right, to shield officials, including himself, from the accusation of criminal activity of a terrorist kind for six long months (for Covid panic and fear projection is a crime of terror).

you are likely right, idk uk politics at all

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/new-sec-rule-means-holdings-dalio-einhorn-soros-and-more-could-go-completely-dark

Some of the biggest investors in the world would see their holdings "go dark" if the SEC implements a new rule concerning Form 13F disclosures that it has recently proposed.

Names like Paulson, Einhorn, Druckenmiller, Bacon, Tudor Jones and Soros could all see an added layer of opacity to their holdings as a result of the SEC's proposal to limit Form 13F filers to those who hold stakes of $3.5 billion or more. Even Ray Dalio, who manages $138 billion, could see added opacity to his holdings as a result of the rule. His firm holds only $5 billion in stocks.

The current threshold for Form 13F filers is $100 million and the value of most of these firms' holdings in the U.S. is less than the proposed $3.5 billion threshold requirement.

Even Paul Singer's Elliot Management could wind up going dark, as his firm has only about $3.4 billion in stocks and and convertible bonds and another $2 billion in equities, according to Bloomberg. Managers like Leon Cooperman have said that it would be nice to reduce the regulatory burden required for the current threshold.

NIRI spokesman Ted Allen thinks the new rule is a compromise for managers in exchange for requiring more timely 13F reports and a potential rule change that would require firms to disclose their short positions.

Allen said: “If this rule goes through, you will see more small and mid-sized companies getting ambushed by hedge funds. This will increase activism in all of the mid-cap companies because there will be less transparency.”

Andrew Park, a senior policy analyst at Americans for Financial Reform, has concerns about the new requirement: “I’m certain you could see firms that want to cap at $3.5 billion. There’s a pretty stark difference of having $3.49 billion versus $3.51 billion given these reporting requirements.”

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any investor anons care to chime in?

>>9986137

how fast can you paint a 20 foot Q?

>>9986150

fake.

pants not tucked & no handcuffs on the terrorist. this was antifa faking an arrest.

>>9986157

fake, no cuffs

>>9986190

great point